Ron DeSantis Iowa Campaign Courts Evangelicals

Cedar Rapids, Iowa — One day after completing his tour of all 99 Iowa counties, Ron DeSantis returned to the eastern part of the state to make inroads with the key voting bloc he hopes will help carry him to a surprise victory on January 15: Evangelicals.

It’s in these intimate and typically reporter-free church environments that DeSantis, who is Catholic, often speaks about faith as a prerequisite for leadership. “You should trust in God, not think that you are God,” DeSantis told a small congregation at Liberty Baptist Church in eastern Iowa on Sunday. “You have to be mindful of lessons from the Bible of people like King Saul, whose ego and lack of humility ultimately caused his destruction.”

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa — One day after completing his tour of all 99 Iowa counties, Ron DeSantis returned to the eastern part of the state to make inroads with the key voting bloc he hopes will help carry him to a surprise victory on January 15: Evangelicals.

It’s in these intimate and typically reporter-free church environments that DeSantis, who is Catholic, often speaks about faith as a prerequisite for leadership. “You should trust in God, not think that you are God,” DeSantis told a small congregation at Liberty Baptist Church in eastern Iowa on Sunday. “You have to be mindful of lessons from the Bible of people like King Saul, whose ego and lack of humility ultimately caused his destruction.”